Three years later, former lead singer of R.E.M. returns to the stage – TVI24

The former lead singer of REM, Michael Stipe, returned to the stage late on Tuesday in New York, in an unexpected solo concert that was his first live performance since the end of the group in 2011.

According with advanced information on the Internet page of the New Musical Express (NME), Michael Stipe played six songs in the first part of a show of Patti Smith, accompanied in her concert by two musicians.

The alignment integrated two tracks from REM, “New Test Leper” and “Saturn Return”, and four versions, including “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra, and “Hood”, Perfume Genius.

Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry (drums that however left) formed the REM in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, United States, and edited the following year the single “Radio Free Europe”.

The group broke up in 2011, months after the release of the album “Collapse Into Now”, the 15 original career.

The great moments of success of the band were experienced in the 1990s with the albums “Out of Time” (1991) and “Automatic for the people” (1992), as which grew to be dubbed one of the great bands of the alternative rock world.

“Out of the Time” revealed the songs “Losing my religion” and “Shiny Happy People” and the album “Automatic for the people” came to life “Everybody Hurts”, for example.

In the hangover of success of these two albums, REM recorded “Monster” in 1994.

Among the last albums that REM edited, and came to perform live in Portugal are “Up” (1998), “Around the Sun” (2004), and “Accelerate” (2008) and “Collapse Into Now” (2011).